I really need people to read this and then research how bad it is. Activist educators have been developing a curriculum called Teach Palestine for a while now. What started in 2019 has really picked up steam after 2023, and nonprofit publishers and advocacy groups are distributing the “curriculum” and then foundations, donors of the left train individual teachers, and union networks bringing this “education” into your child’s K-12 schools. Who develops the curriculum? Rethinking Schools’ Teaching Palestine: Bill Bigelow, Jesse Hagopian, Suzanna Kassouf, Adam Sanchez and Samia Shoman, editors; contributing educators supply individual lessons. Rethinking Schools jointly operates the Zinn Education Project with Teaching for Change. MECA’s Teach Palestine: Jody Sokolower and Samia Shoman, project coordinators, working with contributing teachers. Operated by Middle East Children’s Alliance; joint training with XITO, a program of the Center for Community Education. Teaching While Muslim: Organization founded by Nagla Bedir and Luma Hasan; its team reviews and edits submitted lessons. Joint September 11 educator guide with CAIR–NJ; its Palestine resource bank links educators to additional advocacy organizations. Philadelphia DSA and Rethinking Schools advertised a joint political-education workshop, Weaponizing Antisemitism: An Interactive History, facilitated by Adam Sanchez. What the Nazis taught when they told German business owners to retaliate against Jews who publicized persecution. Sanchez and Hagopian contributed many times and are affiliated with Socialist Worker, the International Socialist Organization’s publication. Shoman serves on the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium’s Arab American Studies leadership team. The consortium explicitly identifies Paulo Freire’s education-as-liberation approach and Bettina Love’s abolitionist teaching among its foundations. 😬😬 Oakland’s school teach-in included speakers from the Palestinian Youth Movement, Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area and Black Alliance for Peace. MECA also publicly promotes BDS participation. 😬😬😬😬 New Venture Fund’s 2023 tax return shows $41,500 went to Rethinking Schools and $185,000 to Teaching for Change, the two organizations behind the Zinn Education Project. Seattle Foundation paid $10,000 specifically for Rethinking Schools’ Palestine magazine issue, and Lannan offered a $20,000 matching grant for MECA’s Teach Palestine project. (newventurefund.org, newventurefund.org, seattlefoundation.org, mecaforpeace.org) The political content goes beyond learning Palestinian history: materials frame Israel through settler colonialism, occupation and genocide, connect Palestinian experiences to American Indigenous dispossession, policing and incarceration, and encourage boycotts, walkouts and student activism. (teachingwhilemuslim.org, teachingwhilemuslim.org) Documented classroom examples include sixth grade at Vernon School in Portland, where instruction connected Palestine with Black Lives Matter and art as activism; grades 10–11 at Balboa High School in San Francisco, using Palestinian narratives and resistance-themed films; and Oakland’s December 2023 teach-in, whose organizers explicitly wanted to bring activism into classrooms and increase interest in the movement. (teachpalestine.org, teachpalestine.org, rethinkingschools.org) Arabella Advisers is the two billion dollar NGO leviathan that ran into a lot of problems regarding transparency, and therefore had to Sunflower Services in 2025. New venture fund, who is supports and contributes to this cause is part of their conglomerate.

In these materials, America is portrayed as a country whose wealth and power were “built through Indigenous dispossession”, “slavery and racial hierarchy.” Police, prisons and border enforcement are presented as systems of oppression, connected to Palestinian experiences under Israeli rule. U.S. support for Israel is “framed as complicity in Palestinian dispossession and suffering.” Students are encouraged to challenge those systems, through protests, boycotts and political organizing. Suzanna Kassouf’s account of a 2024 ninth-grade unit at Grant High School in Portland describes a simulation designed to make students experience “the unfair dynamics of Israeli apartheid.” Teachers are encouraged to help students identify oppressive structures and develop the ability to challenge them. Alongside reading comprehension, historical knowledge and evaluating evidence, students need to develop solidarity and become advocates. A couple of more years of this kind of curriculum and a couple more schools decide to pick it up and we’re gonna have France here in no time.